His team set up camp and left for Casa Grandes to take care of business. When they returned, they found their families, including wives, children, and elderly parents, had been slaughtered by Mexican soldiers. The grief-stricken Geronimo lost his wife, three small children, and his mother in the massacre (via Smithsonian). "I stood until all had passed, hardly knowing what I would do," he remembered in his 1905 memoir, "Geronimo: The True Story of America's Most Ferocious Warrior." "I had no weapon, nor did I hardly wish to fight, neither did I contemplate recovering the bodies of my loved ones, for that was forbidden. I did not pray, nor did I resolve to do anything in particular, for I had no purpose left."
He returned home where, in keeping with Apache tradition, he burned his family's possessions and headed into the wilderness. One day he heard a voice and the voice told him, "No gun will ever kill you. I will take the bullets from the guns ... and I will guide your arrows."
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